While development has been the foremost agenda before successive governments in India it has been viewed narrowly â from the perspective of economic development and particularly in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). This book questions such an approach. It breaks from the conventional wisdom of GDP growth as being a definitive measure of the success of a countryâs policies and offers an alternative development philosophy. The author contends that peopleâs economic and social welfare life satisfaction self-fulfilment and happiness should be treated as indicators of real development. The book underlines that in a successful model of development the countryâs economic policies will have to synergize with its cultural ethos and that the objective of development should be gross national happiness and well-being of the people. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies economics public policy and administration governance political science and sociology as well as to policymakers. . Language: English